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Money can’t buy you love, but it can get you a mammoth celebration of matrimony and mammon that has the whole world talking. All eyes are on Venice this week for Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez’s big-bucks big day, an event mired in controversy as protesters rail against the damage done to their city by overtourism. However, you don’t...

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My family’s roots trace back to the small mountain town of Controne, Italy, about 70 miles south of Naples. It was there that my grandparents — Vincenzo Manfredi, born on December 24, 1885, and Filomena Chiaini, born on October 12, 1892 — began their lives together. They married on May 3, 1914, and had four children: Nicola, Silvia, Eduardo (my fat...

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  Italy and the heat: fifty years of rising temperatures The financial wealth of Italian households surpasses €6 trillion in 2024 Rome’s public transit offers free digital library with books, audiobooks, and music Even robots will fly: actually they're already doing it, in Italy Taranto and its black gold: the story of the cozza tarantina Wishew, t...

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  Un nuovo documentario racconte l'emigrazione siciliana a Middletown in Connecticut I Washington Spirit ingaggiano l'attaccante Sofia Cantore, prima italiana nella lega americana di calcio femminile L’ecosistema Italiano del biotech protagonista al BIO Boston in Massachusetts Crollano le esportazioni di vino italiano negli Stati Uniti: ad aprile -...

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Between 2023 and 2024, Italy saw a sharp rise in both the number of citizens moving abroad and the arrival of foreign nationals. According to the latest report from ISTAT, approximately 270,000 Italians emigrated during the two-year period—a 39.3% increase compared to the previous biennium. At the same time, about 760,000 foreign citizens immigrate...

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  Nastro Rosa Tour: the Sailing Tour of Italy Piedmont leads Europe in surgeries using hypnosis as anesthesia Rome Fiumicino named Europe’s top airport once again Scientists believe secret to living past 100 may lie in a small Italian village Italy’s aging population drives demand for 2 million domestic workers by 2028 Cohesion as a driver of compe...

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I never set out to reclaim citizenship. I set out to understand something—something unspoken, inherited, and quietly persistent. It began with a question about origin and quickly became something more: a journey into memory, into law, into loss, into place. I thought I was tracing a legal right. What I discovered was an entire architecture of belon...

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Starting today, Saturday, June 21, 2025, the Regional Museum of Piedmontese Migration in Frossasco (near Turin) will once again welcome visitors. In this newly refurbished space, thousands of people with Piedmontese roots from all over the world will be able to reconnect with their heritage and rediscover the deep ties that bind them to the land of...

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After learning her family’s Italian culture from her immigrant grandparents, Susan Guerra is experiencing a new part of life by living and leading walking food tours in Italy.  Growing up in Glen Ridge, Guerra was familiar with New Jersey Italian traditions, but it wasn’t until years later that she would move to Italy and truly learn the extent of...

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A new documentary, "The Italian Heritage Project," which features the stories of local Sicilian immigrants and their families, carries a universal message of hard work and perseverance against discrimination that is especially relevant today. “This country is founded on immigrants," said filmmaker Angelo Glaviano, a Sicilian native. "Lately, it see...

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